Month: October 2010

Care of our friends over at Run As Radio, Jeff Stokes talks with Richard Campbell about Xperf, which is part of a suite of tools called the Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (WPT). WPT digs into Windows where PerfMon leaves off by using Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to see exactly how applications are behaving, even…

Written by Dan Erelis, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Canada. The design of a Microsoft Exchange 2010 infrastructure can be a daunting task. Countless hours are spent evaluating current loads, hardware and disk specifications, IOPS requirements and potential client activity/growth. Once you have achieved your goals in the design phase, testing and qualification of…

Written by guest blogger Suzanne Battiston, Principal Microsoft Technical Account Manager If you’re in IT operations, you’ve most likely experienced the following situation: a large scale integration project with several developers, business analysts, testers, UAT leads, project managers, program managers, executive steering committees…….but wait, where’s operations? A month before the project goes into production;…

Written by Neil Harrison, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer In a previous post, we looked at ways of importing our drivers into Microsoft System Center ConfigMgr so that we can use them for our various Operating System Deployments (OSD). We also touched on adding drivers to our boot images as this can easily be accomplished during…

Written by Kip Ng, Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Most people in IT have a strong tendency to resolve a problem with technology or introducing more technologies into a solution. I‘m guilty on this count too. Well, you know what? Technology is not always the answer. 3 key elements to successful IT operations are People,…

Written by Dan Erelis, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer As I discussed in a previous post on combating PST (personal folder files) infestation, one of the fundamental reasons why organizations look to an email archiving solution is to solve the problems associated with PST storage. There are organizations out there that restrict the use of PSTs,…